Chaos in the project?

Strange title, maybe?

Well, yes. There is a little bit of chaos in the project, mainly because it's vacation season, so that means that everybody will spend some time away from the project and most things which would normally go well, don't now.

Another source of chaos might be the fact that, up until the last release I had a pretty good idea of where I would like to go with the project. I need it to be in high memory and I want that to be done in a simple fashion, which I think I have completed by now.

Next up I thought I'd look at streams and everything, but it turns out now that we need at the very least a simple virtual file system. Now that very simply put means that I don't have a clue what I'm doing.

I have been reading this book written by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and it does give a nice overview, but it's all theory, and like we all know, there is a difference between theory and practice. Oh-yeah, there are some differences all right.

Now I'm not going to sum it all up for you, but it boils down to the fact that I have a lot of questions and pretty much nothing at hand to answer it all, besides the book, which I'm still reading.

I'm at the same time also looking at the OS dev wiki and have found some interesting bits of info there as well.

So, what can one expect to happen until September the first, when this sprint should be done.

Basically just us lagging severely behind. I think I might have overlooked the gravity of some of the functions and that in planning terms will cost us dearly.

Now this doesn't matter anyway, as I still don't have a clue of when the 1.0.0 release should be.

One thing is for sure though, and that is that the 0.0.5 release might have a little less than one'd expect it to have, more because of the gravity of the features, than because of the lack of planning in the vacation (which is why the sprint ends first of September instead of August the first).

Speaking of summer break, what am I going to do?

Well, I'm going to France for a couple of weeks, and the neighbours will be watching over the plants and everything.

My sister is not going with us for the very first time, because she gets to go to language training camp in Cambridge (lucky arse).

In the mean time I'm pretty sure Steven will keep going with the graphics drivers and stuff like that.

So I think that'll be it for now and I plan on posting again when I'm back.